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'A decade after Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness first depicted the mysteries and agonies of the area, Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the northeastern Belgian Congo. They knew they were launching an extraordinary adventure, but they could not have imagined what those years would hold. By the time they sailed home five and a half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens representing one of the most comprehensive collections of the day'

"Bulgaria/Bulgarians: Development of a Nation How Bulgaria became Bulgaria, and how the Bulgarians became Bulgarian."

I made a powerpoint presentation on a lot of aspects of the Berlin wall 1961-1989. This powerpoint presentation consists of pictures, graphics and maps with only a bit of text. This powerpoint can be used to illustrate your story about the relevance and impact of the Berlin wall:

Not quite sure why the "California Institute for Ancient Studies' has German on the homepage. Not great quality but if it's Bronze Age I usually bookmark it regardless - there's not much on that era.

This is a very interesting and unusual idea. Historians at Stanford have collected very specific and detailed information about historical events within short time frames and then produced graphic representations of these events that you can play over maps. It's very precise and perhaps too detailed for many high school level students to make sense of, however some of them helped show how historical phenomena occurred. Particularly chilling was the graphic showing slave purchases in the Rio slave market in the mid-C19th; you can see individual children being bought at specific times by specific people.

The site re-sizes land areas to reflect different characteristics, e.g., population, wealth, birth rates, religion, etc. Helps students visualize.